Colegio Nacional Enrique Nvó Okenve
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Colegio Nacional Enrique Nvó Okenve (or Enrique Nvó Okenve National College) is a college in
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of . Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equ ...
. The college has two campuses, based in the cities of Bata (seat) and
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. It was originally created in 1959, under Spanish colonial administration, under the name of ''Centro Laboral La Salle de Bata''. After independence in 1968, the college was renamed to honor Enrique Nvó Okenve, a martyr for independence and founder of the Idea Popular de Guinea Ecuatorial. Okenve's nationalist ideas and his rise to power in sections of northern
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concerned Spanish-appointed
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Faustino Ruiz González, who has been alleged to be responsible for contract killers who assassinated Okenve in 1959. Renovation of the Malabo site and reconditioning of the Bata site has been funded by
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.


Notable people

* Teodoro Obiang (student at "La Salle de Bata") – military and political;Revendo "Minha vida pelo meu povo" III
PDGE.


References


See also

* National University of Equatorial Guinea Educational institutions established in 1959 Colleges in Equatorial Guinea Malabo Buildings and structures in Bata, Equatorial Guinea 1959 establishments in Spanish Guinea {{EquatorialGuinea-stub